Training, education and mobility

The Laserlab partner laboratories are actively engaged in the training and education of young researchers in all fields of laser science. Laserlab thus wants to contribute to the increasing challenge of securing a highly qualified workforce for optics and photonics and the related industry. Please find here current opportunities for:

    * Marie Curie Initial Training Networks
    * Erasmus Mundus Study Programmes
    * Graduate Schools
    * Research Trainings and Summer Schools
    * European Photonics Study Programmes
    * Mobility

Marie Curie Initial Training Networks

• ICONIC: Imaging and CONtrol In Chemistry
• HARVEST: Control of Light Use Efficiency in Plants and Algae – from Light to Harvest
• FASTQUAST: Ultrafast control of quantum systems by strong laser fields
  
• ATTOFEL: Ultrafast Dynamics using ATTOsecond and XUV Free Electron Laser Sources
• CORINF: Correlated Multielectron Dynamics in Intense Light Fields (started 2011)
  

Erasmus Mundus Study Programmes

• MSc Course Optics in Science and Technology (OpSciTech)
• EUROPHOTONICS: Master Course and Joint Doctorate in Photonics Engineering, Nanophotonics and Biophotonics.

Graduate schools

• The International Max Planck Research School of Advanced Photon Science (IMPRS-APS)

Research trainings and summer schools

Summer schools 2012

• Tulip 2012 Summer School on Modern Developments in Spectroscopy, 10-13 April 2012, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
  Regular summer school organized under the auspices of the European Science Foundation within the framework of the SILMI programme, and the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC)
• Correlated Multielectron Dynamics in Intense Light Fields CORINF PhD School, Dresden, Germany, 11-15 June 2012
  
• 11th Kudowa Summer School "Towards Fusion Energy", Kudowa Zdroj, Poland, 11-15 June 2012
  
• 3rd Venice International School on Lasers in Materials Science, Venice, Italy, 8-15 July 2012
• STELLA School for Training in Experiments with Lasers and Laser Applications, Pavia, Italy, 18-29 June 2012

Summer schools 2011

• International Summer School on Ultrafast Coherent and Quantum Control, 29th August - 2nd September 2011, University of Oxford, UK in the framework of the FASTQUAST Marie Curie ITN
• SUSSP68 – International Summer School in Laser-Plasma Interactions and Applications, 14-27 August 2011, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
  Further details and application form online at http://sussp68.phys.strath.ac.uk
• 6th International Summer School "New Frontiers in Optical Technologies", 8-12 August 2011, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
• International School of Quantum Electronics: 49th Course ' Atoms and Plasmas in Super-Intense Laser fields', July 14-24, 2011, Erice, Sicily, Italy
  
• International School of Physics Enrico Fermi: " Microscopy applied to Biophotonics", 12-22 July 2011, Varenna, Italy
• Silicon Photonics Summer School, 3-8 July 2011, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
• STELLA school event, June 20 - July 8, 2011, at the Insubria University in Como, is a unique, full immersion, "School for Training in Experiments with Lasers and Laser Applications", which sees a number of highly qualified experts to deliver technical training directly at research lab infrastructures.
• 5th International Graduate Summer School: Biophotonics '11, Ven, Sweden, 14-21 May 2011
  Focus: Optical methods and instruments based on light interacting with tissue as powerful techniques for bio-medical diagnostics, monitoring wide spectra of tissue function and pathology together with therapy.
• ATTOFEL Summer School, Crete, Greece, 2-6 May 2011
  Training in the fields of attosecond and free electron laser science. Lectures will cover a large range of topics from ultrafast laser technology to experimental instrumentation and  strong-field physics.
• Erasmus INTENSIVE PROGRAM: Ultra-Short and Intense Laser Technology and Metrology (USIL)
  November 29 to December 10, 2010, Bordeaux, France >> Details
  

Other trainings

• Training in Laser Plasma Short Wavelength (Soft X-rays and EUV) Sources
  Call for applications for short-term training visits at the Institute of Optoelectronics, MUT, Warsaw, Poland
  >> Details on IOE webpage, go to 'Trainings'
  
• PYLA - Plateforme de formation aux métiers du laser en environnement contrôlé
  

In addition, the Technology Platform Photonics21  provides a list of current offers of summer schools in optics and photonics.  >> Details

European Photonics Study Programmes

A list of European photonics study programmes and curricula offered throughout Europe is provided on the Photonics21 website.

Mobility